A Guide to Convince Youth to Pursue Manufacturing Jobs [PART 4]

PART 1: Understand the manufacturing facts

PART 2: Understand the education facts

PART 3: Understand the needs of our youth

PART 4: Understand the needs of manufacturers

Simply put: manufacturers look for ready-trained, on-demand and enterprise-ready talent with following skills:

• Ability to operate sophisticated computerized machinery, follow complex blueprints and demonstrate high
  math proficiency

• Ability to verify information, critically analyze, recognize patterns, analyze data sets, synthesize, creative
  problem solving and thus improve manufacturing processes.

• Success in communicating ideas, participating on a diverse team, considering alternative perspectives,
  collaborate with other experts on a global playing field (languages!)

• Ability to communicate in a variety of media, to participate in networks, and to navigate distributed
  organizations.

• Track record of personal management, planning ahead and persistence and initiative demonstrating
  independent work and judgment

• Management, legal and sales/marketing skills

But many companies seem to get disappointed by the quality of graduates from local training programs. In terms of competency as well as attitude (morale and timeliness).

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PART 5: Understand how to work together with schools (June 10th)

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